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KF72 ·

Franklin Field

38.30490°N

-121.43000°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 15.2%

DEP / DAY

▲ 22.6%

Franklin Field (KF72) is a small general aviation airport located in Franklin, CA. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,123 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 5 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KSAC, 15 mi away (KF72 does not publish METAR)

34m ago

Temp

91°F

Wind

5 kts

200°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KSAC 272053Z 20005KT 10SM CLR 33/12 A2992 RMK AO2 SLP130 T03280117 58004

Runways

2 installed

3,123 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

44% of ops

220 land · 281 TO

34% of ops

169 land · 104 TO

12% of ops

60 land · 2 TO

9% of ops

47 land · 10 TO

Runway 27 carries 44% of operations (220 landings, 281 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 34%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

27 220 landings

UA 10%

18 169 landings

UA 34%

36 60 landings

UA 5%

09 47 landings

UA 11%

Approaches to 27 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (23 UA events from 220 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

10.4

flights/day · 311 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 6pm · 7pm

Day vs night

58%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 10.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (7.8 vs 11.9 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (22% of 286 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOA
Mag var:: 16° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

WestSacRob

02/02/2008

This is the "training airport" for the KSAC flight schools

This airport is about 10 nm S of KSAC. This is where the pilots flying out of KSAC (including me) go to practice touch-and-go's, emergency landings and so forth. It can be quite busy on VFR weekends.

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